Torrey Pines High School - Freeflight Yearbook (Del Mar, CA)

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M5 gs sr' I I -1- .-. I I .- I-Iisfory - The knowledge concerned wiTh The recording and explanaTion of pasi evenTs. Some inTeresTing changes were made in Thai' deTiniTion wlTh Jerry Conrad's world civiliza- Tion classes. Besides iusi siudying hisiorical in- TormaTion, Conrad's sTudenTs were given The opporTuniiy To acTually creaTe Theirown civili- zaTions. Conrad explained ThaT This would allow sTudenTs To peTTer unciersTand The con- cepT of hisToriography and how The sTudy of The pasT can pe inTerpreTed. Siudenis creaTed four culTures per class which consisied of ariifacis and languages. They really goT inTo The languages, Each one was really Terrific! Afier making Their culiures They exchanged wiTh oTher groups in order To inTerpreT for mis- inierpreij informaTion jusi as anThropologisTs have, In This way, The sTudenTs acTuaIly goT ex- perience wiTh hisToricai concepis. Conrad's ideas also influenced oTher Teachers who possibly would use his Tech- niaue for Tuiure classes. l'l wanT To Try To have my sTudenTs do hisiory, EveryThing sTudenTs learn in school, such as maih, English, biology, and oTher ciasses, They can do. By making Their own culTures. . , They are geTTing inTo The processes of hlsTory. - Chris Thames Tomi INA I is- ' 'T' 4 id ig 3 ..s,,...,s N..s,, ,ww 1 T 1 fifigi' N-T T .E H rs o it sts TM T' ' i.T 1 --'T I W 6 S CCD Q I . f s.To, .sii,s T T s- T , Q r r 5 iili playing an artifact to the class, Conrad teaches his students how to create a history. 4- An exhibition of historical artifacts created by the world civilizations classes. 111

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